‘Our child was born in an open field’: U.S. aid cuts deepen Afghanistan’s maternal health crisis

In late March, Khatira*, a 23-year-old woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, died alongside her unborn child in the Afghan village of Gharibabad, Herat province — simply because there was no clinic left to help her.  The local health...

‘Our child was born in an open field’: U.S. aid cuts deepen Afghanistan’s maternal health crisis

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